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To My Childhood Best Friend

A thank you for everything.

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To My Childhood Best Friend
Nicole Robbins

There is really nothing like your childhood best friends. In a way they kind of make you into the person that you become. They are there through all the awkward stages, and continue to love you even then. Here is a thank you to my best friends from childhood who have remained my best friends into “adulthood” (or whatever this is that we are actually in).

I think the biggest thank you would have to be for sticking with me through middle school. Yes, middle school was just as bad as everyone says it is. But you were there through all my awkwardness and supported my Justin Bieber obsessed self. At least we were both awkward together. I think there is really nothing like going through middle school with someone and remaining best friends after. Like after middle school literally everything is uphill from there. It seriously cannot get worse than the braces and old-Aeropostale clothes days. Thanks for sticking with me through all this. And, more importantly, thank you for never, ever letting me forget these times.

I am really the person I am today because of who I surrounded myself with when I was younger. So thank you for helping me become the person that I am today. I really believe that who you surround yourself with, especially at such a young age, impact who you become in the long run. So thanks for being such a great person to influence me.

I think one of the craziest things about growing up is that our lives will never be the same ever again. I don’t think we will ever live within walking distance of each other, or be able to hangout and do homework every day after school. Not even that we enjoyed school at the time, but we’ll never be attending the same school again. In fact we’re basically done school. Crazy, right? Now that we are like “old,” our lives will never be like that again. And that is so sad to me because those times were the best.

I am so glad we are still friends! College can be really hard on friendships, but when you have been best friends for so long the distance doesn’t really matter that much. Honestly at this point I could not even imagine my life without you or even your family. 15 or so years later you guys have really become my second family and I don’t even know what I would do without you.

Thank you for being there through my embarrassing childhood and tween years, and never letting me forget it, just like I will never let you forget yours. Thank you for helping me become the person I am now. And more importantly, thank you for continuing to be my friend after all these years, and only getting a little bit sick of me.

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